đŁAAAAAAAAAUGH!
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we didn't have the combined MMRs in Puerto Rico when i was kid. thatâs why kids adopted from countries without it, get the separate ones.
the choice of separate and combined should be readily available AND FREE. money, not public health, is why we are forced into the combo; just as i was forced into anaphylactic shock 3 times to use an additives laden chemo solution.
money, not science, is why the insurance and the hospital forced my doctor to use the cheaper chemo solution⊠đ§”âŠ
the US doesn't have "health care". we have the "health insurance industry" masquerading as health care.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
PS:
ALLERGIES TESTING âfrom cradle to graveâ SHOULD BE STANDARD PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRACTICE.
this is why my sons still go to their âbaby doctorâ. heâs one of the best in Family Medicine and this is the clinicâs routine protocol.
it should be, after those 1994 changes to the FDA.
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AAAAAAAAAUGH! â Kennedy claimed at one point: âSomething happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.â â
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva federal funding for early diagnosis in schools, and having it in the DSM as a diagnosis probably helped a bit.
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PS:
ALLERGIES TESTING âfrom cradle to graveâ SHOULD BE STANDARD PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRACTICE.
this is why my sons still go to their âbaby doctorâ. heâs one of the best in Family Medicine and this is the clinicâs routine protocol.
it should be, after those 1994 changes to the FDA.
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PSÂČ:
this is not a fucking paper, so all the caveats apply to this thread; but wanted to add:
not all the 1994 changes were bad. i believe the statistical modeling involving old products was a good call. one of the CP CEOâs goals was to reduce animal testing. this was one of the factors that helped with that.
/đ§”
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
@blogdiva WTAF!?
I know I'm physically potentially intimidating, and as such, I try very hard not to be visibly angry or yell, but they would have heard me from the reception desk in my response to that one. After letting my wife take my son out of the room.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
@blogdiva WTAF!
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PS:
ALLERGIES TESTING âfrom cradle to graveâ SHOULD BE STANDARD PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRACTICE.
this is why my sons still go to their âbaby doctorâ. heâs one of the best in Family Medicine and this is the clinicâs routine protocol.
it should be, after those 1994 changes to the FDA.
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@blogdiva ALL OF THIS
As someone with mast cell activation syndrome (basically allergy cells react to things you arenât allergic to) it is absurd the amount of dangerous shit corps put in everything. Trying to find skin/body care without benzene relatives is such a PITA. Even antihistamines, which logically should be highly attentive to potential anaphylactic triggers, are pick your poison on inactives.
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PS:
ALLERGIES TESTING âfrom cradle to graveâ SHOULD BE STANDARD PREVENTIVE MEDICINE PRACTICE.
this is why my sons still go to their âbaby doctorâ. heâs one of the best in Family Medicine and this is the clinicâs routine protocol.
it should be, after those 1994 changes to the FDA.
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Thank you for the whole thread, it's educational.
For allergies testing, my kids' allergist warned me that the technology isn't as good as we would hope. The standard scratch tests will give a lot of false positives. He himself tested positive for a dangerous level of peanut allergy, but eats peanuts without issues. So allergy tests were mostly used to confirm an allergy when they already have other evidence, e.g. "The patient was exposed to eggs and milk and had an allergic reaction, we will use the scratch test in the hope that only one or the other will test positive."
I'm just some random idiot parroting what I heard from a doctor a decade back, so I am probably getting the details wrong. That's my memory of the discussion.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
I'm so sorry for what you and your son have gone through. I know people with similar stories about their kiddos and vaccinations. This is the battle ground, people are more important than profits Every Damned Time.
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
@blogdiva omg. đ€Źwhat an asshole.
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@blogdiva WTAF!?
I know I'm physically potentially intimidating, and as such, I try very hard not to be visibly angry or yell, but they would have heard me from the reception desk in my response to that one. After letting my wife take my son out of the room.
@lachlan seriously. my ex and i were livid.
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Ah yes. Like how Benadryl has a red dye that is a known allergen in it. And people who are most likely to need Benadryl are the people who are more likely to have an allergy or sensitivity to this particular dye, so they have to look for "hypoallergenic antihistamines". Blew my mind when I had to research this stuff for my own health.
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2. iâve outlined my experience with both sides of the changes:
- 2a. ACTIVE ingredients, like triclosan âwhich were always problematic
- 2b. INACTIVE ingredients in pharmaceuticals and cosmeceuticals that are the most often involved in what the industry called âpersonal injuryâ cases. in my case it involved cancer immunotherapy. in my sonâs case, immunization.
all this to say: in spite of those 1994 changes, we should have more than one choice of #vaccines BECAUSE OF #ALLERGIES đ§”âŠ
@blogdiva Thank you so much for this thread. I have to be careful with vaccines because of allergic reactions to inactive ingredients and trying to explain to people that this is a very real thing...Plus sometimes trying to get confirmation of what they all are. I'm glad your son has you looking out for him.
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AAAAAAAAAUGH!
â Kennedy claimed at one point: âSomething happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.â â
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva ya know what, something did happen to humanity, but it was before the 90âs (referring to the 1930âs -1960âs with nuclear detonation, ddt & the list continues
) & ya know what, thereâs nothing much we can do about it now! But of course this idiot would never dream of blaming himself & his own generation or previous generation for this mess.
Besides, itâs far more complicated than that & with understanding autism, diagnosis has made it more visible, doesnât mean it wasnât there before! -
PSÂČ:
this is not a fucking paper, so all the caveats apply to this thread; but wanted to add:
not all the 1994 changes were bad. i believe the statistical modeling involving old products was a good call. one of the CP CEOâs goals was to reduce animal testing. this was one of the factors that helped with that.
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@blogdiva I finally read through the entire thread đ©·
Iâm so sorry you had to deal with all of that đ«
I have anaphylaxis from a food allergy and I know what itâs like to go through it. I wouldnât wish it upon my worst enemy⊠yes I mean that!
Itâs so frustrating that we have to deal with such assholes in companies and government, every generation seems to have to struggle with this stupid problem and system. I sometimes get the feeling that we need another Teddy Rosevelt ⊠maybe thatâs Mamdani. -
PSÂČ:
this is not a fucking paper, so all the caveats apply to this thread; but wanted to add:
not all the 1994 changes were bad. i believe the statistical modeling involving old products was a good call. one of the CP CEOâs goals was to reduce animal testing. this was one of the factors that helped with that.
/đ§”
Yes, yes, and yes!
I would add that we now have entire generations of people in the US who don't know that soap *without* triclosan is antimicrobial. You don't have to add shit to it
That's half the reason soap exists! (And the other half is that it washes grease off of stuff)
And starting in 2020, we've got a huge population of people with new allergies, often to these inactive ingredients, often that they don't know about until they get a bad reaction
Every time a doctor prescribes a medication for me, I have to spend hours trawling the database to find a version that doesn't have cornstarch in it
Often there isn't one, and I have to get my meds compounded. Which I have to pay for out of pocket, $100-300 a bottle, and special order
And a good chunk of the time it's not available to compounding pharmacists either
This is very frustrating for my doctors. They can't just write a prescription and have me fill it. I have to go through this whole 2-month process, and I still might end up with nothing
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to this day, because of his allergies, my son needs to get special #flu #vaccines ordered.
which is why he still goes to the same family doctor that tended him after i stormed out of that pediatricianâs office who literally said, âwell, even if he died, itâs for the greater goodâ.
really? no. forcing a cheaper vaccine isn't for the greater good. itâs for maximazing pharma profit.
all vaccines should be free and there should be more than one choice available. THAT is the greater good. /đ§”
@blogdiva Thank you for all of this, and Jesus Christ. You and your ex deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not causing bodily harm to that callous SOB.
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AAAAAAAAAUGH!
â Kennedy claimed at one point: âSomething happened in the mid-90s that changed our children, and it has to be an environmental exposure.â â
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-vaccines-executive-order-measlesi am one of those mothers who had her child have an anaphylactic reaction to the MMRs in the 1990s and am here to tell you this fascist fuckwad should know it had nothing to do with the #vaccines and everything to do with the changes to FDA regulation that happened in 1994 during the Clinton administration
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@blogdiva So, Adolf is about to intentionally cause more pandemics just to line his pockets? -
Thank you for the whole thread, it's educational.
For allergies testing, my kids' allergist warned me that the technology isn't as good as we would hope. The standard scratch tests will give a lot of false positives. He himself tested positive for a dangerous level of peanut allergy, but eats peanuts without issues. So allergy tests were mostly used to confirm an allergy when they already have other evidence, e.g. "The patient was exposed to eggs and milk and had an allergic reaction, we will use the scratch test in the hope that only one or the other will test positive."
I'm just some random idiot parroting what I heard from a doctor a decade back, so I am probably getting the details wrong. That's my memory of the discussion.
@firebreathingduck I can affirm. I'm sensitive to an increasing number of things, but don't show up with a true allergy. My allergist told me to go by my reaction, not a test, then told me about another patient who didn't show up positive on a scratch test or blood test for shellfish, but coded when given a food challenge.
My ear drums and sinuses become inflamed now over soy, wheat, and nuts, and my digestive system is wrecked over oats. Good enough for me!
